Fantasy Grounds 5E Parser

[kp9911]

True however I would like to give users the flexibility in adding a table here and there and not to mention interfaces of adding lists and links or references.

For example, the npc parser of mine does not specifically allow tables.

[kp9911]

002A: Developer Ramblings (I really wish I had a blog)

~~ "The hardest step is to start.... NOPE the hardest step is the one that you fall down on" ~ random ramblings

So development has finally started with the first couple of commits happening as well, I have planned on using a very object centered approach for which the inspiration comes from funnily enough the Class Feature of D&D 5E.

Classes are what forms the guts and what normally brings glory to PC's. You say you have a fireball spell(scroll. But you know non casting PC's excitement when they see FIREBALL written on it)! BUT! *queue NOIR music* Do you have spellcasting? If not make sure you have Wisdom because when that scroll turns to dust muhahahah you're gonna suffer you insolent non spellcaster attempting to cast a spell person you.

In a similar way I take an approach to coding. Does my class have what it takes to form the blocks required in XML... humm I dont think so, well then pheasant back to the drawing board! Keep doing this until you are happy. Once this step is done well basically its like filling a form. All the tags are in place and I just need to substitute place holders with the actual data, cast some complex pew pew **** on it and ta da the xmls are done! (At least I hope so)

[LordEntrails]

002A: Developer Ramblings (I really wish I had a blog)

All you got to do is email [email protected] and ask them to enable the blog for your account Just make sure you tell them the username and email address it's for.

[kp9911]

Can anyone point me to the XML structure for a character sheet on the wiki, I cannot seem to find it for some reason. :s

[Zacchaeus]

I'm not sure there is such a thing. But if you have a look in inside the db.xml of any campaign which has a character in it you'll see the structure there. You could also create a character and export it and then open up the xml to find the same thing.

[kp9911]

Thanks Zacchaeus, I was previously doing that however I was just wondering what the common tags were. I think the <reference> and <library> tags kinda encapsulate everything including spells, equipment etc.

Since I am progressing module wise, I was wondering what I should keep as a basic interface since I will do away with it (If I ever will) eventually for an all in one parser.

[kp9911]

003A : Developers Ramblings

"Rise my pretties, rise!! *evil laughter*" ~ "Em Lord Madam Elvina, your grace umm..." ~ "What, What is it?" ~ "Um... How do I put this?" ~ "Spit it out already!" ~ "The zombies you raised have no skeleton..... so ah, they cant "rise"" ~ "A great idea, lets get skeletons to rise as well!" ~ "*facepalm*"

An application falls flat without a good framework. Period. Safe to say this frame work is almost complete for the class parser! Time to move on to the *cough* zombie/meat and flesh (and brains?) of the application now!

[kp9911]

Small Update : I recently managed to get my paws on a new laptop so its going to take some time to set it up to where I left off. So for now dev work has stopped.

I also have something bigger in the works. What I am aiming for is a nice new intuitive UI on the front end, so for this I am getting updated on some skills, if I like what I see after mixing this cauldron, it might just reach you guys as well.

Further more I am changing my design pattern a bit and creating a master application, once this is done I can release modules step by step until maybe one day we will have another parser to use.

[LordEntrails]

Nice, thanks for keeping us updated.

[kp9911]

Sneak peak at the new interface I'm working on!

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This is an initial markup, I hope to change the color coding and font and what to to make it more D&D'indy